Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you. — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order. — Antoine-Augustin Preault Copy Share Image
“The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is… — Trevor Manuel Copy Share Image
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“Eventually, you get tired of seeing mediocre talent succeed, so you work as hard as they do.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but… — Martin Dugard Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Parents and schools are teaching children how not to think, but how to be good little groupthinkers and people of faith, how… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“There’s neither need nor justification to wallow in the trough of mediocrity.” — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
